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Metal By Numbers 2/3: Megadeth have mega sales

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.

So Megadeth’s Dystopia is the big star this week and the first major release of 2016. It’s in the top five and it’s the second highest debut of the band’s (or Mustaine’s, I should say) career, so there’s much to be celebrated. But, to be honest, I’m more distracted by the hot new compilation Now That’s What I Call Rock. It just find it so amusing. Remember when these albums had commercials? On actual television? Do they even still do that? And when are they going to take it a step further and put out Now That’s What I Call Kvlt Metal? Rev up that Kickstarter and take my dollars.

(Note: The actual chart positions are missing from this week’s MBN are missing. Why? Whatever reason you want. That’s the power of free will.)

You know, it’s been awhile since we had some kind of random compilation on here. So just for kicks, let’s track this Now album that lets you hear Seether, Breaking Benjamin, and, uh, Walk The Moon all on one disc (two actually).

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A Pale Horse Named Death, the project featuring former Life Of Agony and Type O Negative members will release their new album When The World Becomes Undone on January 18th, 2019 via Long Branch Records/SPV. Today (14th), the group are streaming the new song “Vultures.” Check out the track below and pre-order the album here.

Blink-182’s Travis Barker’s Musink festival will return in March at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa. The event is scheduled to run from March 8th-10th as Suicidal Tendencies and Limp Bizkit will be next year’s headliners. While we are still waiting for a third headliner to be announced, other acts include Hatebreed, […]

KoRn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer joined Hyro the Hero onstage earlier this week (4th) during Hyro’s performance at the Viper Room in Los Angeles, CA. Shaffer’s surprise guest appearance was for the song “Devil In Disguise,” taken from Hyro’s latest effort Flagged Channel. Check out the fan-filmed clip below: [via Revolver]

It looks like Mastodon are working on their follow-up to 2017’s Emperor of Sand. Drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor shared an image via Instagram of himself and guitarist Bill Kelliher confirming new music is in the works. Check out the image below: View this post on Instagram […]

Machine Head’s Robb Flynn has revealed he will perform at Stars to the Rescue XXVIII, which is scheduled to be held on January 26, 2019 at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, CA. Flynn will have a 30 minute performance as he announced his participation in the below video: Tickets are available at […]